Orange County Transportation
Authority bus ridership levels have been drastically reduced since
2008. Although fiscal year 2011-2012 showed some slight growth,
the following two years have shown slight declines. After muted
growth in the beginning of 2015 was followed by a large jump in
ridership during the month of March, bus ridership levels have
begun a downward trend in recent months and for the month of June
2015 totaled 3,736,106. This represents a decrease of over 157,000
riders since June 2014 and a decrease of over 52,000 compared
to the May 2015.

Metrolink ridership rates have shown great performance in 2013, but struggled
slightly through 2014 with declining usage. In June 2015, the
average ridership for the Orange County line increased from 222,929
in May 2015 to 236,707 in June 2015, an increase of 6.2 percent.
For the Inland Empire to Orange County line, ridership increased
from 106,663 to 114,832, an increase of 7.7 percent. And finally
for the 91 line, ridership decreased from 65,408 in May 2015 to
58,917 in June 2015, a decrease of 9.9 percent.

Both Foothill and San Joaquin toll roads have trended upward through 2014 and
into 2015. June 2015 transactions on the Foothill road increased
by over 17,000 since June 2014, and San Joaquin is over 9,000
users above its ridership for the same time period.